butterとは

発音

• enPR: bŭtʹ-ər, IPA^(key): /ˈbʌ.təɹ/
  • • (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌ.tə/
    • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌ.tɚ/, [ˈbʌɾɚ]
    • (Scotland, Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌ.tɚ/, [ˈbʌ.ʔɚ]
  • 韻: -ʌtə(r)
• (Northern England, Midlands) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊ.tə/
  • 韻: -ʊtə(r)
• ハイフネーション: but‧ter

語源 1

From Middle English, from 古期英語 butere (“butter”), from Proto-Germanic *buterǭ (“butter”) (compare West Frisian bûter, Dutch boter, German Butter), from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, “cow cheese”), compound of βοῦς (boûs, “ox, cow”) and τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”), from Scythian.

Compare Avestan ����������‎ (tūiri, “curdled milk, whey”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHrós (compare Middle Indic [script needed] (tūra, “cheese”), Russian творо́г (tvoróg, “curds, soft cheese”), 古期英語 þweran (“to churn”), geþweor (“curds”)).

名詞

butter (usually uncountable, 複数形 butters)

1. (uncountable) A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
2. (countable, obsolete, chemistry) Any specific soft substance.

   butter of antimony; butter of arsenic

3. (uncountable) Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).

   peanut butter

派生語

関連する語

• butterfly
• butter-ham

動詞

butter (三人称単数 現在形 butters, 現在分詞 buttering, 過去形および過去分詞形 buttered)

1. (transitive) To spread butter on.

   Butter the toast.

2. to move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow.
3. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.

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派生語

参考

• butyraceous
• ghee

語源 2

butt +‎ -er

名詞

butter (複数形 butters)

1. Someone who butts, or who butts in.
   • 2005, David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel, The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (page 156)

     […] these animals lacked self-correcting mechanisms of the kind seen in modern head-butters such as goats and big-horn sheep that would have kept the tremendous forces aligned with the rest of the skeleton.